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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Monkeypox- the best way to attack LGBTQ
« on: Today at 07:13:49 AM »Incorrect. It's primarily a disease among homosexual men.
What exactly is the point you are trying to make?
Why not read what I was replying to? It was suggested that it wasn't a gay disease. That suggestion was incorrect. It is a gay disease.
Define “gay disease”.
Apparently it hasn’t really been a “gay disease”, whatever that means, since 1970...
African monkeypox cases not concentrated among gay men, experts say
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Monkeypox outbreaks in Africa are not concentrated among gay men, unlike in other parts of the world, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa CDC said on Thursday.
But in Africa, where repeated outbreaks have been documented since the 1970s, the pattern of transmission is different, the experts said.
"Currently 60% of the cases that we have - the 350 - 60% are men, 40% are women," said epidemiologist Dr Otim Patrick Ramadan, who was answering questions on monkeypox at a media briefing organised by the WHO's regional office in Africa, and who was referring to the continent's number of current cases.
"We've been collecting data on monkeypox since 1970 and that particular indicator, men having sex with men, has never come up as a significant issue here in Africa," he said.